Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain / by John Clark.

Date:
1792
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    climates, is alfo. treated at full length* And, fhould it refill the common method, the author has propofed the trial of mer- cury, from which, in this country, he has experienced the beft efiedls. The other difeafes are paflfed over in a more curfory manner. The author, how- ever, has not omitted to mention any thing, which his experience has confirmed, relative to their cure: and in the tetanus, in which he has had few opportunities of making obfervations, he has introduced remarks from the moll approved writers on the fubjedt. In the pollcript to this part, he has given a report of the fuccefs of the pradice in fevers, for fifteen years, on board the India Ihips ; which, he flatters himfelf, will aflbrd the moll convincing evidence of the fuperiority of the treat- ment, which he propofed in the firll edition. To prevent the frequent repetition of prefcriptions, recommended in this part of the work, they are numbered, and placed in the Appendix.—Thus, when the reader finds the powder, N°. 5, direded, as at page 182, by turning to the Formula Medicamentornm in the Appendix, he will fee the prefcription oppofite to N°. V. and fo of any of the reft which may occui in any other page. In